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Our Plastic Nature

Our Plastic Nature

Chapter:

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30 Our Plastic Nature

Source:

Transformations of Lamarckism

Author(s):

Paul Griffiths

Publisher:

The MIT Press

DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262015141.003.0030

This chapter analyzes the notion of human nature and the concept of inner nature from the perspective of developmental systems theory (DST). It explores the folkbiology of human nature and looks at three features associated with traits that are expressions of the inner nature that organisms inherit from their parents: fixity, typicality, teleology.

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